Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-14
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SATISFACTORILY Ill IHo SooA oo
way.
- Alfred r. Page, a colored waiter, is a
candidate for legislative representative
on the Labor ticket in Cincinnati. At the
nominating convention he received the
highest number of votes given for any can
didate for representative from any of the
city districts.
The story comes from Salem, ILL.,, of a
flock of $50 sheep that were overtaken in
their pasture by fire. They at ono made
for q knoll in the field, ar there punched
themselves, with the lambs in the middle,
and began moving in a circle, treading the
weeds and grass into the dry earth until
the fire was out.
The two Woodward boys who killed
Archie Douglas, seven miles from Coffee
vile, Miss, last summer, were tried and
acquitted before the Circuit Court of Cal
houn county on Thursday. Immediately
after the verdict was brought in Bob
Woodward was married to the girl whom
he was trying to steal when forced to kill
Douglass in self-defence.
General Rosecrans says that "there is
no deobt that the Grand Army has been
seriously crippled by the politicians who
seemed to have captured it some time
ago. The effect of their efforts has not
been to make the society a great partisan
machine, but only to drive out of it some
of the good men who were not willing to
stay inside and let themselves be placed
in q false position"
In a recent interview, Congressman
VIM. d. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, said:
81 think the South is the future Ell Dorado
of this country. It represents Q vast re-
gion yet u~ndeveloped, which will one day
attract the world. There are two classes
there and they are hostile. Those who
represent the past and those who believe
and are working for the present and future
of the South"
- Senator Sherman, of Ohio, has accept
ed an invitation to attend the annual fair
of the Colored industrial association, to be
held at Raleigh, N. c., and commencing
October "a. He is expected to make an
address. The Raleigh Observer says lit is
already evident that the approaching an
nual fair of the colored people will surpass
that of last year, and if Senator Sherman
comes this year he will probably see the
North Carolina" General Malone has
also accepted an invitation to attend the
Raleigh fair.
= The Probate Judge of Smith county,
Kansas, is insane. He ought to be re-
moved and another appointed. But the
Governor finds himselfin a dilemma. He
cannot appoint a Probate Judge until q
vacancy occurs, and no vacancy can be
declared until the incumbent is adjudged
insane. In order to affect this the lunatic
must be tried by a jury and declared by
the Probate Judge to be insane. No other
person in the county has this power. This
is the first case of the kind which has ever
arisen in Kansas.
= Col. Thomas G.. Jones, colonel of the
Second Alabama Regiment, forwarded by
express to the Governor of Connecticut, so
as to reach Hartford last Friday, the bat
tie flag of the Sixteenth Connecticut Vol
unteers. It was captured at plymouth,
Montgomery True Blues, which has re-
organized and is now one of the compan-
les in the Second Alabama Regiment. In
his letter the Colonel says: 1.-The nag is
returned because of the indisposition to
retain a memento of triumph of brethren
over brethren"
- It is shown as a result of the advance
in coffee that the deliveries for consump-
ton in the United States are 3S3,5S7 bags
less in the first six months of 1887 than in
the first six months of 1886, a decrease OF
22} per cent. The decrease in Europe is
only 81 per cent, or $4,000 bags. The
shrinkage represents largely the reduced
stocks carried by the several grades of dis
tributers, and the difference is not alto
gether in consumption, but represents IN
part the iobbers' and retailers stocks
which have beer sold off.
The law %abolishing separate schools
for colored people in Ohio has been obeyed
in some places by keeping the colored
schools open as before, but designating
them as branches or district schools. At
Lebanon, upon the opening of the schools,
a colored teacher found himself practically
deserted, all his pupils having gone to
white schools for enrolment. The same
thing happened at Oxford, Ohio, where
the white pupils have become displeased
with the invasion, and some have LETT
school until the matter is settled.
The Georgia Legislature, now in SEES
sion, has passed a law which gives to the
medical colleges of the State the bodies OF
all who die in jails and ~poOrhouses. Prln-
cipal Keeper Towers, of Atlanta, received
a dispatch Friday morning announcingthe
death of a colered convict named Todd,
who was drowned at Smiths camp, near
Madison, while trying to make his escape;
The doctors of the Anatomical Board
claim him for their own, and will get him.
Lis DIluClDdl hG6pcI Will OCllSOA - "
Secretary McRae through the authorized
carrier of the board. This will be the
first body ever dissected in Georgia with
the sanction of the law.
Slavery in Brazil promises soon to be a
thing of the past. The Parliament of the
empire is now considering a bill providing
for the final stages of emancipation and it
will pass. It declares all slaves registered
under the act of 1871 to be free. But they
must serve their masters two years more,
being paid, however, and being cared for.
Moreover, they can redeem themselves for
about 5000 each. Slaves fifty years old or
more need not thus serve their masters, and
if one of a married couple happens IN
some way to free himself, the other also
becomes free. The registered number OF
slaves now in the empire is about ,2OO,OOO.
- What is known as the trial of the Bald
Knobbers, in the United States Court at
Jefferson City, Mo-, came to a sudden end
last Friday. There were originally thir-
teen of them arrested in Douglass county
for driving homesteaders from Govern
ment lands. Two of them were promptly
convicted. Two more cases were called
and again convictions was obtained. The
evidence showed that all the accused be-
longed to an oath-bound secret organiza-
ton. On Friday the cases Of two more
of the gang were begun, when the lawyers
for the defence asked for a conference with
the prosecutors. After it they obtained
permission to have all the defendants not
yet tried plead guilty. The whole gang
were remanded. They will probably get
the extreme penalty of ten years impris-
onment and $4,000 fine.
A nine-year old son of Hiram Taylor,
of Wilmington, Ohio, mysteriously disap-
peared about thirteen months ago. He
was an unusually bright child, not worse